Anniversary Exhibition for the Women’s Art Resources of Minnesota

Fresh Art: Using Social Media to Market your Art

Layl McDill and I will be leading a discussion on Social Media practice for artists at the next WARM Fresh Art.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013, 5:30pm – 7:45pm at The Saint Anthony Park Library, 2245 Como Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55108. The event is free and open to the public.

The House We Built: Feminist Art Then & Now

Katherine G. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota’s Regis Center for the Arts

I am not a part of this exhibit directly, but it is curated by Joyce Lyon and will include work by WARM founding members. We are working in conjunction with Joyce and Howard Oransky so that the WARM Anniversary show and the House We Built exhibit can work in conversation with one another.

I am excited and a little daunted by what looks to be a very, very busy beginning of 2013.

I’ve been playing around with abstract gear-like shapes lately…and finishing the latest addition to the Phantom Organs series.

Phantom Uterus I will make its debut this summer at Women and Water Rights: Concerning Water at the The Phipps Center for the Arts June 15 – July 22, 2012, a remount continuing the conversation from the original Women and Water Rights: Rivers of Regeneration exhibit at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the U of MN in 2010.

I struggled a lot with this one and am still not entirely satisfied with it. I couldn’t seem to get the uterus to fit correctly in the well of stones/bubbles/whatever you think they are. Until it dawned on me it could be upside down. But it still doesn’t quite match the imagined painting that was floating in front of my vision waiting to be realized on paper, so I have a feeling there’s a Phantom Uterus II in my future.

Incubators will also be showing at the WARM 2012 Juried Members Exhibit at the Grain Belt Bottling House April 13-May 4, 2012. I am busy with my exhibitions committee hat on getting the final details set for the show, which has an opening reception Friday, April 20th from 6-9pm and a Juror’s Talk and Discussion with local arts writer and critic Mason Riddle on Wednesday, April 25th at 7:00 pm. We have 76 artworks from 54 WARM artists in the show this year.

And in between those two shows? Art a Whirl. Lower level of the Keg House will be my spot. AKA Map Location F8. See look, I have a NEMAA profile.

The Walker Art Center is Screening !WAR: Women Art Revolution this weekend. At the same time, the Katherine G. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota Regis Center for the Arts is holding an exhibition featuring work by the film’s director, Lynn Hershman Leeson. I’ve been waiting eagerly for this ever since the film’s trailer came out last spring. Hershman is speaking both at the opening reception at the Nash on Thursday and at the Friday night screening at the Walker. The film is 40 years in the making, detailing the evolution of the feminist art movement in the United States since 1968. More info on both these events with a much better description than I could write can be found here. There is also a free event for women artists in Minnesota at the Walker on Saturday from noon-5pm called MN Women Artists Talk Back which includes assistance with digitizing artwork and setting up an mnartists.org online artist portfolio.

Opening reception Friday, November 4th in conjunction with Lowertown First Fridays.

Local artist Robyn Hendrix brings her playful, quirky painting style to the walls of the Baroque Room, a new music performance space in Lowertown St. Paul designed to provide an affordable venue for chamber musicians, and to create a diverse and stable early music scene in the Twin Cities.

Opening Reception November 4th 6-9pm, in conjunction with Lowertown First Fridays. Free and open to the public. This exhibit will be on display through January 29th and can be viewed during Baroque Room performance events or by appointment in addition to the opening reception.

Thanks to everyone who came to our opening reception for “Resurfacing” at the Women’s Building, and also thanks to those who were there in spirit but didn’t make it in person. If you didn’t make it, you missed cupcakes:

and art:

“Phantom Brain” and “Phantom Heart,” Watercolor on Paper, 2011.

These are the first two in what I hope will be a new series that I am calling my “phantom organ” series. They are my tweak on the general concept of phantom limb syndrome, and address the way large, life changing decisions can sometimes feel like cutting away or giving up a part of oneself in order to preserve the whole. I am considering making phantom ears, lungs, and bones; additional body part suggestions are welcome and encouraged! Hoping to have two or three more body parts done before my solo show in November at the Baroque Room (opening reception Friday, Nov. 4th as a part of Lowertown First Fridays).

We had a lovely reception and I got all kinds of great comments on impressions people get from my artwork. I love hearing all the different things people “see” in my paintings. DNA unzipping itself was a particularly good one. Thanks again to the Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota for this exhibition opportunity and all my fellow exhibition committee members for their help to pull it off. The exhibition is on display until October 21st and open building hours are 9am-4pm (actually I was told the doors auto-lock at 4:30, but the official hours on the postcards say 4:00 so…yeah). Artwork is on all three floors and in the conference room, so if you go, make sure you wander around to see all of it. The address for the Women’s Building is 550 Rice Street in St. Paul (just a couple blocks north of University).

Keep in touch! I’ll be posting some of the newest artwork in the show on my website portfolio very soon and also revealing some new professional artist portraits taken with Suzanne of Suzanne Shaff Photography. Like my facebook page too, if you haven’t already.

Speaking of exciting things in the works, but jumping way out of my league, the wonderful people over at Springboard for the Arts shared some huge, fantastic news this past week about new funding for arts placemaking along the central corridor in St. Paul. Check out Irrigate to learn more, and/or watch this video of the exciting launch on Thursday. I am so proud of Springboard and the other partners involved in this massive, inspiring undertaking, and feel very lucky to consider several of those Springboard peeps my friends and colleagues.

Three lovely people picked my art off the wall at the Art 4 Shelter sale last week and gave $30 each to support Simpson Housing Services. Thanks so much to them, and to everyone who attended or donated artwork. It was a great crowd and seemed like a very successful event.

About 1100 pieces of art (I sent in three), all of them on sale for $30 to support a great cause. Lots of other Women’s Art Registry of MN artists are participating, and so are two of my former Carleton art profs Fred Hagstrom and Linda Rossi.

Here’s the postcard with details about the Living Green Expo exhibit I’m fortunate to be a part of May 7th-8th. It is the 10th anniversary of the exhibit and over 50 artists will be participating. Four of my watercolor paintings will be included: Stones, Seedlings 2, Thirst, and Incubators.

Also, plans have changed and there is NOT an opening reception the evening of Friday May 6th.

Ready to see the art that came out of that random mushroom inspiration from a few weeks ago?

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Mystery Artwork

Too bad! It’s top secret until the Art 4 Shelter Benefit on May 5th, 2011 at Circa Gallery. Come to the warehouse district and see if you can figure out which pieces are mine among the hundreds of 5x7s on the wall (I made three). You can even take one of them home, for only $30! Supports Simpson Housing Services.

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